Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1876, Page 6

. teiver, Lxay UxalUAL D LavkoUlvas. srALURDA 2y VU v o lBauae 11, loiv L wvaslay. 2 AGauns * SURANCE. Reoflections on the Continental Life Failure, It 'Has :Had No Effect on the Big Companies. A Notable Decision in Mas- sachusetts, Preparing for an English War---Wrack- ing Life Companios. The Natlonal Board--Danger of a Now York Conflagration. Specinl Correspondence of The Tribune. Nanw YoRE, Nov, 8,—Are life insurance com- panics trustworthy? A eix milllon e com- pany—the Continental—has falled, nna this is tho question belng asked by policy-holders and the nowspapers. - Yankee fashlon, it may be pertinent to answer this question by nsking an- other: *Arc savings institution and National Banks safo 1" I It not truc that several of the first, ond many of the latter, have falled, and are we to blindly conclude that the rest arc un- sound? Tho Continental Life hos beon notori- ously on the decline for several years. Its risks bave decreased portly through the distrustof its putrons and partly as a result of o system of ¢ freezing-out” opursued by the Company itself. The officers of- the Company have beun negotisting with the New Jersoy Mutual to reinsure the policy of the Continental. Anar- rangement wus entered into for thls purposc lnst spring, but fell through on account of legal difficulties suggested by the decislon of Judye Ulibert pdverse to the amalgamation of com- panles. There were not two opinlons among 1lfe-insurance men as to the standing of the Continental, and If its policy-holders were st any time doubtful of the safcty of thelr poli- cles, o slight cxamination of the' Company’s of- flcinl reports to the New York Insurance Depart- ment would luve set their doubts at rest. Tho Contincntal wus blessed (1) also with a set of ofllclals who hind nefther nerve to louk the {ssue squarely fn the face nor tho tact to scb fn notjon mensures to avert the calamity. Alter deluding themselves with the idea for sume thwe that the storm would blow over, thev were so_alarmed upon the first intimatjon of trouble from outsiders that they rushed Into Court and asked for the appolntment of a Ke- ‘Thus was added to o decreasing busl- ness and loss of nseets an fmbecllity nnd cow- ardica-which may result in 5 waste of one ortwo nifliuns of dollurs bf winding up the Conipuny’s atfulrs, Such an fustitution ought to Gl BTATUS OF TIE LARGE COMPIANIES, Notwithatanding this six-miltlon Compaoy has gone by the bourd, aud the blow nlmed at the * business of life insurance s o serfous one. the older and Jarger compaules reinain firm as o rock. They are nomoro endangered or kmper- fled by the Continental fallure than the Natlon- al Bank of Commerce of New York, or the ‘largrest Natlonal Bank of Chizaco, with thelr milllons, would be by the faiture of some weakling in Arkungas or Florlda, Yt there {8 an undercurrent of fear fn the publle mind which finds vent in the deily Jour- naly that this failure shows n tenknesy on the part of all the compantes, The tinancial column of the 2'¥bune rocently quoted u re- murk of an English lusurance manazer that oue-halt of our Awmericay compunios were un- sound. 1f wes o slander of the worst sort, und the Continentul atlair nud 1o moro bearing in provaug the rumurk true then a bobtall conutry bank Influre could pruve the unsoundnoss of the untivnul buning systent. The trth of the Lusiness f3, teut thic Turge companies like the Mutuul Lie, Equitable, Mutual Sepefit, Con- nectteut Mutuwi, New York Life, nnd othere, ure golutng stromgth every © day. Thelr yederves nbe fnoreastog, and this is what teats o cumpany, Just us usarplus tests bank or fire fnenrance company, ‘Chelr assets ure us judi- cunsly Invested us 1t i3 possible tor the wit of tan to devise, Tuey have discountod the hurd nimes by reduclny valuaddons of real eatato und Iussenityr the proportion of their lonus, ‘Ulic Contineutal faflure has brouzght co'tleht tho In- terlor mangrement of the great Company, and it auust be-contessed the develepmenty ary very satisfactory, Policy-hulders may rest quict and Leliove that their pollcies are ns sure 1o be pudd (truud and uttomapts ut feaud escopted) ab ma- ity us thut thew bank deposits are to be pald upon demand, Break contidence in every tdu- cury trust, and it will be proper to go tor the lituinsuranee companics, but not-uutil then. A STUMBLING-BLOCK IN MASSACHUSETTS. ‘The American life companies dofng husiness iu Massachusctts are sorely troubled by a recent deefsion of the Supreme Court of that Btate, That Court-has declded that the non-forfelture law of Mussuchusctts upplics to all compu- nles of other States doing business there so fur 08 {t concerns BMussachusetts pollcles, ‘Ihis law contalng u humane provision that fail- ure to pay & premium whén due does not abso- lutely forfeit u polley, but that the previous reserve, held ‘upon the polley shall operate to extend the same to u perfod equal to that for which the amount n cash would luve extended it Asan example of this luw, it muoy be stated il o person, uged 83, fusured July 1, 1872, for $20,000, payable at death, and omitted to pay his annual premium due July 1, 1876, his fo- surauce woull bu extended without furthor payment u&m Aug, 15, 1850—In other wards, if thd person diad prior to the Just-mentfoned date, the 320,000 would be payable, This Is ealled the Massachtsetts non-forfeiture law, but liereto- . fore tue compauies of other Statos have beon re- gurdod a8 1rpu trom its operution. Now comus tho Bupreme Court of that Btate and says that thu Conneetient uud New York compunies—in 1uet ull others—if they do suy business in the Bay Stute must conform to the Bnr Btate law, Ol'epurse thero [s w rumpus ubout it, sud what miukcs 1t worse 18 that two of our lending New York Life Companies huve eroeted expensive bulldings in Boston, und cunnot cscape paylug the pounity ou thelr forfefted policles decrod by the Supruine Court of the State. "The result will be a raid upon the Leglalsture for rellof g:m:uurcn, ora wholesgle withdrawal from the nte. EPFECT OF A WAR UPON CANADIAN POLICIRS, ‘Therecent litizution between Bouthern and Northern Ufe fusurancy comspanies to reistate tho policies which were forfolted for non-puy- ment of propyums during the War has drawn attention to the fact that in the evont of o war botween the United States and England Mfe jn- surance contracts might be cudovgered. Tho Cayadian agents oppoged to Amerlean, cowpu- nies have been quigk to geo the advintago of this polnt in soliclting risks, though thoy have fn- Jured the busiueas of opr companics but slight~ ly. Astho Yunkces do by far the largest life fusurauce business by the Domblon, the rival looal wud -English compunios ure cager 10 seize upau any advantugy which « the wlfect ol wmlght give them. To put & quictus upon this question, the New York und Equitable Lifo buve such entered futo s spechi) werwugoient with theie Cuuadian poli- ey-loliders, wiiereby, fu the ovent of a war bo- tiveen thu two couutries, the Cunuda policies willfn no wise be luperiled. 1t I3 provided that i spch ay event prewlums may be paid uy usuy ut the Conmpanl ofllees In Montreal, whose receipts therefo untersigued by two I cub Lrustoes, shall continue iy lability of the Conpunies W the samy wunuer 48 10 the prewlins wero puld at tho Compranles’ ullives in this by, Thls i ucouul»leu u\np;lml upon the liea of Cungdian rivals that policies fn Amerfean companics would be worthless in cuse of war, WRECKINU LIPN CONFANIGY, Thereis uo longoer any doubt that a set of une principled devils have resolved to wreek souio of our ife compaules If §t be possible, with o view of being bought off. The latest uitempt s the suit comwenced by one Francls O'Conner uguins| the Unjréd States Lifo~which lapublicly chararterized by the Président of that Company us an attewpt W levy blackwall. O'Conuer, it uppears, wus o former adtuche of the Company, When dohin E, Dewltt resigned the Prestdency to go to Boston, O'Conuer uspired to bo bis sue- cessor, Fajling to secure the coveted position, Lo meditated revenge, und bus thus farsecured it by procuring an order-fur the uppolntsent of & Reforeototaky tustimony us tothesolyencyof the Coupany. Few of the’ sualler ccompanies are I sohieddthy o couditlon us the Unlted Stutes Life, und the uttempt Lo blacken its ol will'vertafuly tull. Nut unly tie Unfeed bue others, sre fuduaded acicuies uf the n oy ot wiur upou Ufe coutructs tes, u the wre kg comspirators, Tie wornlug \pers n.ndvertisements, R the fol lowing: **['olicy-holders in the New Yotk Life- Iusurance Company nay hear of something to thelr advantage by adiressing Box —, with nitnber and date of-thelr policy.” ‘i'his form of advertisement, with a thange of name to Wash- fmpgton Lileand others, bus boen astanding Jokein life Insurance tireles for wome thne past. A New York 1lfe polley-holder nnswered {t, and, recelved a cireular stating that he could make money by surrenderiug his policy nod taking nnother unrmlwmgnny. he reasons were that the dividends or bonuses lind been reduced tostuch n small perventage that the thange ‘would be cconomical, ete., ote. The real objoct 18 to frighten zomehndy who can be used as a tool for beginming o “suft, and thus lay the {foundation for n biackmall levy, The gamohas been played out and Is no louger feared, LOW LIPE INBURANCE MANAOEAS MANLGE, 1t lsnvery romarkable fact that, notwith- standing the immensity of the suins continually rassing through the hands of the life-insarance .offcinls, such a thing as o large defaleation fs unknown. Banks have been robbed, and com- pames have falled, but @ misappropriation of o 1ifo company's funis In the #énso of n defalea- tion has never been hoard of. Now, it would bo pleasant If tho atntoment ended - there, and we could say cruthfully ‘that these savred trusts Loye lDeen -respected as such by il the officlals which have to do with. them. The companics as such are entitled to, and deserve, the confldence of the ynblie, bub-thelr officers are unquestionably ob- Jects of interest. They generally veeelve fut salarfes, equaling thuso of Forclgit Ministers, QGencerals of the army, and, fn one case, of the Président of the United BStates, and i they were nlways eatisfled with thelr salatles no complaints” woull be matde. Unfnrlunnu:l?', however, they are supposed to be engaged fn outside speeulations which bring grist to their mill, Building contracts are n favorite plan of obtalning perqisites, and they offer room for varlous ~MNttle schemes, whieh are tempting cven to the houest wien in the busi- ness, An incldent eame to my knowledgo some time ago worth mentioning. It was ap Intriguc on the purt of an ofllcer of o life company to glven {mrly an ofltefal position in the Conipanv at a fat salary, provided he could control the New York City agency of an Engllsh flre in- aurance company for i relattyc of the Presldent. ‘The *control *'fafled, and 8o ditt tho other half of the barguin. Nntfx[ug; i3 mors common to hear than street gossip inipugning the Integrity of life company officiats, and though little re- Maney ean be placed upon it, the fact shows how wealc 1 th confldénce In them. THE NATIONAL BOAILD DISCUSSION. There fs nconstant fear ot the headquarters of the Natlonal Board lest some leading com- pany will withdmw from the orgunization, and thus precipltate a dissotution. It is well known that one of the large companics whose ofllce is on Hroadway fa torn ssunder with internal dis- sensfons among fts officers and Directors relative to the Natlonal Honrd, The President and Sccretary deslre to withdraw, the Vice- President and leading Dircctors aro in opposition, and the clerks wurc evenly divided. This Company's Western ngents are writiog to the home office constantly urging withdrawal, aud the loss of old-time risks Is de- morulizing the Company's loynity to the Board very rapldly. The only question, is, how long can the Viee-President Twold out? When this Comyrany goes, another, which Is regorded ns its speefal rival, will speedily follow, and with these out the end wiil be a virtual disruption of the Board, The Exccutive Committeo members are consclous of impending donger, und liave been holding © scerct mcetiigs during the past week, durluz which the gravit of the situation has been candidly ackuowl- edged. There 8 o weakoning [n the high-toned talk of sonie of the companies with reference to granting Local Boards privileees of muking rates withont subsmltting them to 150 Broa way, nnd the various Boards through the cou try doubitless fnd {t casler thau cver to carry thelr point, Nelther are companies so anxious to retmove axents for dislovalty, unless the specilie acts complatued of affect the company's own polieies, Tu o word, they are tar more tol- craut of mall abuses of Natlonal Board author- Thut's oue of ity than they were a year ngo. the sigus of the times.’ NEW YOUK IS GREAT DANGER. The firc-fusurance companies which have been the toudost to complain oY the water-facilities of Chleago are apparently oblivious of the tact that ot the prosent timo this great City of New York s {n actual danger of an overwhelming contlagration on secount of the seargity of Cro- ton water. The autharities have forbidden the use of water for streets-prinkling und woshing carrlages and other vohicloy, excepthyg with sponge and bucket, Up-town the wator does not run above the basement, und n some locali- tics mot even in tho Lasement. ‘Fhe entice Pollce Department has been turned into a de- tective fores to prevent the waste of water, and although the dally consumption has been re- duced by thesu precnutions 26 per cent, the authorities are compelled to give notice that the various sources of supply contain less than sixdays’ supply. ‘The situation §s indeed eriti- cal andd the pupers are lumenting tie causes, Yesterdsy's rumiall may help it somewhat, but when all the gmall ales, She Croton River, and water-sheds are drained so low that they lold Juss than un ordinary supply for five days, It s indeet perlous, lsut what 1f a tremendous contlagration should break out in this senson of high windst Night before lnst the wind blew a gale all night, und to contem- plate a ditniulshed supply ot waterwhile flghting u furlous fire In such u hurricave, 5 cnough to muke overy nsursnee President from Wall to Cunal street shudder fn fear. Yet thoy goon tnking risks ut 85, 40, or 45 cents, which “they would refuse in Chienzo at twico these rates. If any conflding New Yorker has su {des that this city hus u putent-right ¢ ption from great fircs, some disastrous contluygration may waken L from the dream. . INDIVIDUAL INSURANCIHL Beveral of our bankssare quictly epgaged In taking fmsurauce risks In u manner searcely con- temptated by thelr charters, Thus they will ad- vauce upon goods in warchouses, und charge certaln sum for insurance, Sometimes they will protect themsclves by regular policies by the year, und collect short rates from custotn- ers, But frequently the bunle takes the whole risk, There ure warchuusemon here who dotho samg thing, ‘Thoy speeulato In - the business of the insurance compunies tn this manner, They tuke out policics upon merchiandiso held tn trust for whom it may concern for suy 850,000, Then they will give udlyidual fnsurance certilicates ot short rates for the terw ol storage for un ngeregate of twiee the mnount of thy policies held vy themselves, O course. they ‘tuke the chunces upon the posgible loss execoding the smaller s depewding upon the salvuges to muke good the ‘ddlerence. ‘Thely real riaf iy small, ~ People who fnsure goods in warelogses wstally fnsure them tor 1y value, where ordinurily w twothirds fusuranve wifi cover the possinle loss, The warchouseman understamts thut, anl Lenee does not husitate to Insure for twies the swn of bls uwn policies. Perbups the most opou-hunded ndividual {n- surer i tils country bs tas fem of Tiffuny & Ca,, the Jewelers, They tuke sliverware, dia- moids, cte,, upou depusit Tur safe-keeping, and fsgue o reguiar certhilente Inanrhug the vroperty aguinst toss by e und burglary’for au ugreed prawfuns, ‘They have fu theif tireproot cel- ur goods thus eured tor $,000,0000 ‘The risk s sllight, but the usuul premum 13 1 per cent per anunum whon the ugreed vishine tlon, ‘Fhat {3 o sung Hidle promlum aeeount, and ut Jest 78 per cont of it §s dear protie w the e, TUE GUARDIAN GENERAL AGHNCY, The Engllsh wmunasger of the Guardian, of Loudon, Is now i this eity for thy purpuse of selecting u representative of the Compuny to suceeed the recently-Geceased mwmger, Carter. 'Thore ars numerous applicants, and ong of the fnsurauze journals fucetiously sug- gesty that thesu upplicauts appear somg line Saturduy upondress purade st the Central arle, At this writing no scleetfon has been made, but it Is ropurted that the comiug man Is Mr, Alfred Pell, formerly the Awerican Manwger of the Liverpool, Lundon, aud Globe, Acordlng to the pupulur rumor ut the thue Mr, Pelt wag a aviethn of tho Chicago re. The Liverpool, London and Globs Directors were disposcd to lay thu blame of the Chivago lossés upon Mr. Bwinton Hoult, tho Cowpauy's umauger, und - retlred him- from the position he had held for many years, Mr. Foll' was unop- polntee of Mr. Bouit, and the new manager cons celved thut the fall of the principal should in- clude the full of bls Amerleun manuger, so Mr, Pell wus ulluwed to resfgn, 12 it be true that he 18 to bu the Guardian representative, the fact Wil be guod news to muuy of the Liverpool nnd London old agents who would Jlks to udd the Guardlan to thely nt:unuy. but whether the former company Wik coisent to fts agents ..v--‘:u;h»g for the Guardlau, this depoueut saith ol JEALOUSIES OF COMPANIEA, The cotmpanies are frlgltully jealous of cach other, and sometimes queer dolngs occur, Bome. months ago an Taglish company elianged man- -agere, sl the old manager was forthwith made manmager of another Taghsh company. Not lougafter, itwas privately announced that an onler had beenreceived from one of thess coni- panies on the other slie to the effecu that ho agent could'serve -thom holh—he must resign the one or the othor. Notices wera sent out to that oMfect, nud the resalt In your city was- that, while formerly these companies were in one oftice on LoSalle_street, they are now di- vided between two ciifices upon opposite sidesof. the street, The sane 't Ia visible clac- where, Amcriean companies sometimes do things equally chiklish, but nuch more quictly aud siyly. TR OCTONER DURINESS, October bring the biw month for fre In- aurance, the companles generully okl well this year. “Last year the ‘rates tum- hied “before October, .and _ there was a tremenddus Tolling ot In ke premium compared with the previous year, This fine the decroase bs - less, and the companies goncrally have held thely own, I0 {6 were nut Tor the Tow rates on dwellines, there would be n. falr Incrense, Lut when companfes unite three. year policies on farultare-n brick rows et -thir- ty-five cents for three vears, what's the use of tulking about -Incrensing . premiumst Phew! Wouldn't a hig fire start business for thy com- putiies that survived 141 Neso. T A ‘VICTIN'S " STORY, U the Edltor of Ths Tribune. Cuicaao, Nov, 10.—In your fsstc of a few dnys ngo appearcd the fact that George M, Wheeler, Inte President of the defunet First Nuational Banlke of LaCrosse, Wis., had been re« arrested nnd taken to Madison and lodged 1o Jail. Mysterious as It iy scem, he is now to be-seen on the hy-woys of our city agaln, Jook= {ng more sheeplsh than cever. His jail contine. ment doos not seem to have nny visible effect on his heslth, except to complete tho destructlon; of au already rulned consclence. 1t will be remembered thas lie, with the ald and cncouragement of Willlam A. Boutor, of this city, the bank’s former President, priorto the G. M. Wheeler administration of its afTalre, can- pletely wrutted the bank ot ita funds, Soutor suceedded In concenling Iis portlon of the “gteal " well for o time, but the uets of Wheeler- ~—30 bold and reckless—Dbetrayed them hoth, re- vealing the most diabolical bank-robbery ever perpetrated in the State of Wisconsin' Ly o st of bank ofticers, There 15 no doubt ihat Reld, Soutor's former partner fu the banl, knows more about the origin of that plece of husiness than he is willlng to tell, Soator, at the time of these diselosures, was Hving in luxury {n thls city on South Vark avenue, and, knowing full well what the disclosures wauld reveal, advor- tiscd his home, and it was sold at auction, He was arrested o short thue afterward and lodgzed In jall at Madison, Wis,, but s now, like Wheeler, out on ball awalting suit. Wheeler, not content witl taking the depositora’ mouey und rufnlog tho bank, sought through his friehds to unload tho stock of the bunk on the market (before [t had leaked out that it was worthless) in such quantitics as to cnuble him to mzl‘;muIFIw\muzn. . T\ Race, proprictor of the Irving Park Land Company, just at the'time ol the bunk closinir “ita ~ doors, turned over some of this stock to a wholesalo grucery house of this cu;. ‘Tho transaction, some say, wave evidence of fraud, uud it {s stated that the pro- cery house havo commenced sult opainst him forthis. ‘It §s belleved by many who ure ne- quainted with the manner fu which be handled that_stock, and "his conncetion with Sloan in flooding the markot with it and closine it out ut prices in trade tar below its regalar quotation, that they know more about the business than they have told. Tho examiuation at Madlson of Wheeler and Soutor has but proved they sought that high oflicial position fi the affulrs of the buuk by uiethods 8o unprecedentedly shameless and disreputable that it would bo an everlusting stigaa upon the stockholders and o premium on dishunesty should they let Wheeler and Soutor {m e yeot Tree ' witholt maoking them disporge heir plunder, VicTist, e — Rowmurknble Exits from Life, TyRslen's’ Sugasine, When Willlam the Siient telt Wmself dying, * Holland's greatest warrlor ' sent for two cler- gymen of the opposing relielous fuctlons und vude them argae which of thele ereeds was the right one. I see well enough,! said thoe hard- encd unbeliever, when they had thulshed thoir discussion, * 1 see there {3 nothing certaln ex- cept mathematies,” With this he turued his face o the wall, fle had ceased to live, A ro- markable dependence upon the certainty of mathematics Oue who was not quitc so confident endeay- ored to muke * nssurance doubly sure.” Iquote from Seallzer and De Thou, who both mafntain that Hleronymus Cardan, & celebrated ustron- omer und ‘nathematican, who lived in Pavia toward thic iniddle of the sixteenth contury, aud may Le better known to students ng the discoy- erer of # Cardun’s suspenston,” having forctold tneday of his death by varlous ealeulations starved himself to death for fear thut his pre-. diction would not be verllled, and that his be- loved seience might sufler fn consequence there- of, ‘This might be called belng mbuied with the spirit of the thing; Lut [ tolnk that m t example pgoos & step further sill,” “ ¢ ” ‘the eelebiated commentator on Lucretlus,' says Voltalre in _his “ Dictlonalrs Philoso- phlque,” “wrote dh his munuseript, *N, B, 1 st hany myself when I have finished my commentary,’” e kept his word fu order to have the pleasure of endlug his days Ik his author, Chuampeenetz, the secretary of Rivarol, dur- tng tho Frenclh revolution af ‘08, Innovently usked, when he Lad heard of his desthesen- tensce, whether a substitute would not do. Andre Chewmer did ot troublo hmself 5o far. Pum:xvlnq his friond Roucher, the author of the *Months,” u poeln not unlike Thompson's ‘¢ Bcasons,! he upustrulphlzud him quite Ireely by reciting the oponiog lines of tho first stene of 4 Andromache? After which he kept ellent until thoy arrived at the DBar- vicre du Trone Renverse, near which the gulllotine was erected, The hidsous cart was miet by o flock of sheep just enterbug Parls, It brought to the youny author’s tulna the seventh Eclogue of Virgil, which he closed with # Torl- dug.” “Torldu corrceted Roucher, His com- punlon Akl not auswer until they bud mounted the seadlold, when lie softly approached Roucher and tn|v[pcll him on the shoulder. “You were right; Liorgot thut sumner was femivlne In Latin," ‘Thut Montalgue should get up in s dying hours to pay bls scrvnuts thefr salary, for Tear that bis lelrs might negieet & or dlspute tae smount, Is not eo wonderful, knowiug what we do of the man aud his vrinciples; but that one . of s very upposites shoubil huve-some thoughts for Lls credigurs attor be should be goue I3 rather surprisin Vuf’uulux,nuuwr of the ' Rearques sur lu (rammalre Franealse,” u nat very stralt- laced personnge, did o, however. Notwith- standing 18 awnple pension, he luaded with dubts Lo that extent that b dared appear (i the street in only went out st uizht, u riso to his trionds cailing nhn eondition of things do him very unu; wus proved at bls death fu bls wilt” Afeer hav- 2 diaposed of is wandrobe to sutha idine cluling, he wds, with o pe Bess uod bunhoitn. o * B be left some creditors who cunnal alber everything (s sold, (i that cise my wisa I3 that they shall sell my hml{ Lo some surgeon ut the highicst prive ghat shall Lo paid for it, und thut the amonunt shall bo npptied to the Hqnidae ton of thoro debts which 1 may suil be owing in the world; so that, 1t { have’ not suerecded n bemngg u=or dnrm;i my lte, 1 may beat least 50 witer my death”” T wonder wheilior e ever heand of Dryden's body hcmj; detalned by hits creditors, e — The Btory of & Frouch Gonsplrator. N Mt Guaetie, Apropas of Pleschi’s attemut to blow up Louls Phuilippe, M. Maxime Ducwinp relutea o horrl- ble story regurding one of the uevomplices of that erbine who wis ot prosecuted. 'Fhe con- splrator huud o ebtld a year old, aml on the duy ol the attempt he told ' the nurse to go with thy Infant nud walt i tront of the Jurdia Ture, In tue Boulevard du Temple, to sco tho Kheg pass. 1 wus ut this spot that the lnteruul machine ex- vloded. “TFog consplrator reasuned thus: * If arrested, 1 shall buable to declare before the Court that, liaviue sont 1y onl, {nun tothe place deslgued fur ‘the exploson, 1 could ot Lave kuown unytliug of ths matier, and [sball cer- tululy bu aequitied by the Jury."” ‘This i oy, Whosg nsme 15 not revealed, was not arvested, wsud, strange W any, hls child wnd nurse escaped without 4 ecruteh, ¢ The herw of this sdds 31, Maxdwe Ducunp, *is still consldered by Liy party us un humine tres fort." > s he Paid, eien — e ——e A Waif sud Stray, New York leratd, Noe. 8. Bhe wus eleguntly drossed. 1fer walking dress wild imade of the fluest sill, aud ier seal- ekiu clouie of the Snvst fur, But when Sl wus brought befora Justlee Kusimiro ut the Washing- tun-Flyce Court yesterday morntug shie Hid her faee In bar houdd aod wept. Meo MceEvoy, whio bas buen the Court tuessenzer for filteen Sears, told Judge Kasmire the story of the girl’s life, Hor tather wus o German Danker, well known and respected dn this clty, who Yved In Secoud aveoug. When she went ustray, her fatully do- scried her, and ¢gher uncles, ouw of the richest finms. of “bruliers, acesNing o the state- ment of Mr. McEvoy, bave persistently rofused to asalst her On heatiog the story told by Mr. MdEvoy, Juatica Kasmiro called thie poor glel np beforehls desk and ask- el her whether the statement tmade by ‘M. Me- Tivoy was triee o not, - Bhe sabd: @ dudee, [ am 22 yearsohl; | ean speak Encltaly Frouel, Ger- tun, wind Ttallan,and o Mttle: Spanist, he Hlerald |-e‘mnvr has scen mo bere velore; my people wiil not take me ek, and I am on_out- east” Judge Kaamire ealled the wayward girl belynd the bar, apolte to-her kindly, reeslled to ‘hor recollections of her mother and her old home, aud finally said: *'You are too young am! handsume to dic awretched death in lxrlwn, as you will {{ you aro brought here b;l he po- ee, *Uohome and tey Lo tlo hetter,” *Ihe poor trl, with her eyes full of tears, eatght at !.I.w, Judge’s hand wwl kissed it S — ‘MR. SOMMERBECK'SDOG. tills :First Night at His Master's Hlome, aml 1ta ‘Melancholy-Ending, Itwrtington: aickeye, “ 1 o Tove a dog, " rald AT, Sommerheck, the owner of the big'yellow brick house on Spring steoet, out on North HIL - Man's fafthful friend: always devoted to bis master; ulways vigilant in his protection untiving in lils cfforts to plenses daclte under diseipliney forgiving In his dispositiony Bud nud fuithful, i dows not balfappreciate him noranderstund bim, T have bougad n dog, one that will in his infantlle doys Die o roniree of unceasing wirth to usall by lifs fnnocent gambols, nnd, 03 age develops . Iis sarrner qualities, will e n faithfnl, vigllant guardian . of our ‘sleeplug hours, Lot us love Binvand dol with hing gently and tenderly,.and his very life witl by devoted to our service, Come, Herzezoving, come: . come fn and get acqualinded with your frionds.” ‘lllurzux;uvhm s nut o very promising look- ing dow.” e had o pas of black, boadlike eyes, thut were set fn stich a steady stare they never winked, bub glared through the tungled mass of erizzly hale that hung over them in a heavy fringe, One af his ears hud been run over by i frelzntrtratn- or somethlug, -uud . was . broken about atildships; the vnd lmngmg aowin - like o half-masted signal of distress. The. other enr stood up bolt upright, like the sample on n lightatug-rod wagon, 1ils coat was an indescrib- ablu pepper and salt eolor, and the dog appeared to have prown gray from premature trouble, Every titng once of the fanily #poko to him he started autd sidled under o' chair or bebiml the sufa with an agility that conld only come from lungr expertence, and, when 'Me, “RBommerbeck stooped down to pat his head,'the cautious creatnre gmve o howl that made the windows rattle, and dived under the nearest table, 4 Never mind,” sald Mr, Sommerbeck, “never mingd; he will Yearn.to know us in n few nys. He will learn to kuow us. “Leacn to . kuow s, Kuow.us." Whien the famlly votired that night the dog was ghut up inthe carclage-shed, as 1t was fear- wd he might feel lonesotne, and stray away from lis new home, The Inst lunp had hardly bheen put out, however, when Mes, Bommerbeek heard strangze nojses in the yard.. Somebody wis prowl- Ing around the barn.” Mr. Sommerbeck groaned a8 hie Jeft his snug Led and leaned out of n window. to listen aud cateh o centennial cold in his head, Evldently thore was sowething or somebady out fu ihe barn, and the anaster rroaned, and dresged, and went down with his heart fn s inouth and o lantern fu his hond o recounoitre. He put .his car agalnsythe tradk of'the tloor; he “heard # ruspiug nofse, as of some one ceammiug - things Into n baz He opened the-door, and thy first thing he saw was u strip of o buggy-cushion. Then hu saw -somu fragiments of etifl that lookod like the Halfog of Jids bugey, amld then bis attention was .| attractod (to u kind of a geyser of curled lafr, | and he saw the fuithful dog ‘throwing his whole soul fnto the work of dlyr';;lup: for rats, where no rat_ever was, in the Duwpgy-cushions. The faithful dog had already coawed the whip in three pleces, chiewed the” check-relns and one of the traces up fnto lmnl‘ molst-looking knots, and ‘tore ‘Mr, Bommerbeck’s stable-coat und u horse- Dlunket into carpet-rugs, “Q0nu consolution,' sald Mr. Sommerbock, *{t's evldencs he's o nowerful ratter,” Mr. Sommerbeck sat out In the cold until e was chilled through, and held the dog by the nuuk, wontering what to do with liim, 4 Conflnement. fs frksome to him, und makes him restless, maybe,” said Mr., Sominerbeck, wonderlu {f he conldi’t et the bugrry fixed be!u’l;o Mry, B, saw It. “Lguess 1N tie him ot. 8o 'he tied him'to the back fence with a_plece of the elothes line, and araly songht his downy couch, e had been in bed about tun minutes when a howl of most uncarthly import smato the ufr, uthq]: uway ina prolonged, shuddering Eurelu ‘thut ltted every hair on Mr. Sommer: cek's head, and emptied all the shricklng, ainting women in the house Into hls room in | one walllng, ‘hysterical torrent. A and amin the howl camo awelling lIY through tho clused windows, us though it walled out of the very walls of the house, and then would come a series of choking, lznrg[lm; gasps und usthmatic groans that were too tull of horror to listen to without shricking. ~Mr. Sommerbeck eould feel | Niis hair trying to 1t {tself out by thoe roots, amd ! lie tried to shout fur the polive, but the sonund | of his terrursivicken voice nwed bim into sllence. “T will go down and sce what it Is,” he sald, In a tone of forced calmness. v He dressed, und took thelantern and revolver and went out, Guided by the terrlble sounds he eame to where o had tied the dug. No dog. was visible, but the rape thut wus strotehed tizht ucross the top of the funce shuwed whers ho was, Tho dovilo snlmul had jumped over the fence aud the ropo wus just long cuough to, let his hind Jegs touch the growul, ~ As lone s he could stand, the dog could bowl till he hustied the vaffroall whistles, and wien his weakeuhye legs buckled und let him down, the rope tightened and shut off hils wind in o scrles of choltes, nnd gasps, und gargles that were too uwiul to think about. Mr, Bunuterbeckelimboed patnfully over the fence and tried to lifL the dog Dack latothe yurd, and as hie pushed the howling aufinal over the fenee, it pawed the top df his batd head until It lovked Nice o map of the' Berbian war. Sommerbeok wished the faithful dog at.the Centennal. ‘Then it erawled Its_hind legs down the nesk-of his night-shirt, and hraced {ts fore paws nzainst the feonce and ';ushud buek, and walked all over Mr, Bommer- cck's upturned tace, howliug all <tho time, Finally, Mr. Sotmnerbeek pushed him over aud heard” him drop with n leavy thunp on the round, ‘Thon be tried to clinh over hhmself, | L was u slow, painful tusk, fur Mr. Summerbeek welizht, uor §3 he 80 youug us he once was. At hust hie got o leg over the ‘top of the fenee alter many grunts, and with o great groan of sutistuction butanced hunsell on tup, iy suddin uppearan-e seemed to (1 the dog with terror, and in o flush, Just s Mr, Someier- beck dropped on the fuside of thu fenee, the fulthiul dog went up Nko n rociot and shot out of sight on the otior, wnd recummenced his Dideaus nuwls mit gasps. Mr, Sommerbuck felt us thoueh he could’t roan deep ennugh as o prepared to seale thedreadful fence, It wuy dlacouraging work, but s gut 1o the tup ut lust, lost lds haianee, andwont down on the other shie lke a land +lid 1ling plump v the faith- ful dog and killing it 2o quick thut the dovimed unfal nover whined a protes Mr, Bommner- beek Minped slowly down thy ulh?' and up the street tothe frontgate, o got fn thoe liouse und went to bed, sl I response to the anxlous Inquirles of the wouan us to what was the inat- ter, die werely told them to pull on the clothes- e fu the morulng at they would fad vut, A Cows Pouotration, Torvnio tiiu e, 3 uroy Mr, . Scott, of Cara- on Monduy sho wus Over twvo w doo, lust u helter, Vuy tlssed, und for several days he searctied for her, but shie was not to he found, At Jast ho wellt to u straw-atack,wiiere the cow had beon in the hablt of rababyg, Thero e saw a hole caten fnto the stack, wid at once suapeeted hls cow witd fn [t. He went e eanddousty; for it was ws dark ws Egypt, The passige sened to have no el Hehad gong twenty-five feet, uud no cow found yet, amd thie pasnige still open, At lunt, at o dlatance of thirty fest trom the mouth, Do o upon the -anlmal, Bhe was allve and doingwell on thostraw; and o rood warim house slie hiad under the stack, The passage sho mndo wits u winding one, ar sho would have fouud er way out ut the upposite side, e —— The Vast Krupp Gun Manufuotory, Lun bou- Timas, The now colebmted enst-steel umlm!nclnrr. near Kesen, was eatablsliod in the your 1810, 1t has beon conducted since the year 1820 by My, Alfred Krupp, ‘I'he onurmous weale on which tho busincss {8 carrled on will be understaod when It [s stated that at the present thine 10,500 men are emploved i thy works, exchisive of sotne 5,000 uthers in tho mlnes uml blust fur nucens. which belong to the tiem, 'Phe articles wanufuctured are: Axlus, tires, wheols, and crossiigs for rutlways; rulls uud sprives for raflwuys and mines; shafts for steamers; ma- ehlnery, bollep plates, volls, speing stecl, tool steel, ang, luatly, guus, gun caerlages, nud pro- jectiles, Thers ure tow - existing 230 smlt~ ng furpaces, 890 onuealhyy furnaces; 101 beatlng furnsces, 116 weldlugz und puddiing furnaces, 83 cupola aud reverberatory furnacas, furunces of other kind: 175 coke ovens, 20k emiths’ forges, and 24 steam-boflars, Thuere are 77 stesu-hanmurs, 18 rolling-tratng, 804 steam-englues ropresouting ultogether vyer 10,000 horse-power, During the year 1875, 613,000 tony of coal und coke were cousumed, ‘This works are in cumuunication with threo of the principal rallways, and there are 81 tolegraph stations on the grounds. A perimanent firo-brizede, constiting of 63 men, with elgbt tleesengiues, fiaw ulso buen tustituted, The wen perform, in addition, police duty, and ara lodgad in barracks belonging to the worki The .ofllcars aud workimen nhabit 8277 dweil- fngs, and there are 10,200 individuals Nving In Aless housea, In tha dwell- fngn -on the mines and seltingaworlin holone- e to tlie fivme there are on Hdditional 1,200 lividuals, and the existing hoarnling-houses give honrd and lodziug to 8,000 unmacried work- men, The nrrangements for the aecommonla- tion of the sivk cousiat of one gencral hospital, With'100 beds; and vne eptdemic hospital with 120-beds, all vmlcr the aupervision of physicinus ged for the purpose. There §s i extablishment, nud a disinfectlon house for the bods and clothics of the sick, The firm have under thelr control a supply system, by which the workmen are provided With nll the neeessaries of 1ife at cost prices, Under this head nlso may be named hotel, o seltzers water mnnufactory, n flour-mill, o bakery, n sluughter-house, and tiree beerdiouses. A slek burinl, and pensjon fund has also leen institutod for thaso who recelve wiges from the firm, the Intter contributing hall the amount of the con- trlbutlons pald fin by the members. There Is also n soclety for Ilfe-insurance. Laatly, the flrm have orgranized an admirable scholastle ays- tem, four of the industrial schools for girls and womnien hcln¥ entively nalutalned by them. The guns manufactured nt Essen aré mado from crucible cnst-steel of n quality especlally adapt- el farthe purpuse; and buth guns and earriuges are tested at proof hutts on thie grounds, and ut the pructice-ground of Dulmen, in Weatphalla, where a range of over fuur mlies affords antple space for any triuls that may be necessary. et e Tho disstasippl Jottles, New Ort eans Picagune, 3 W learn thiat for some titne past the channel between the jettlos at the mouth of the South Tuss bk heen’ everywhere more thau 200 feet wide for n depth of twenty feet ot ad nverage floud tide, aud that 1n the” middle of this wiie channel the dopth is equal to from twenty-two and a hall to twenty-three feet at the higlest tide at the South Pass, when a range of three fo tidg, wit o clanocl depth of tew aud @ bult foet, fof from clghty Lo 100 fect in width, is usually reported ut Houthwest Pass, Therefore it 1s scen thattlie jettfes huve given, although inan fncomplete state, a magmticent channel avross the South Puss Lar to the ses, twice as wide nnd sevoral feot deeper than lias ever been obtuiued ncross the Soutlivest 1'ass bar. ‘We are informed that the works required to -confine thy flow of water from the maln river, ahove the comnion head of the pusses, into Bouth Pass, 8o a8 to secure o Hie deep chaunet eatrance to Bouth Puss over the river middle- ground slonl above Its head, are being ener- gutically prosccuted, with every prospoct of warly success. Alroady, notwithstanding the low’stage of the river, tho one-dipper drodge- boat nt work there to expedite the cutting cut of adeep clinnnel entrance has suceeeded, a8 we are nssured, in obtasining n depthoof lalet of from twenty to twenty-two feeb ncross thls shonl, which'the tidul current. sutlices to maln- taln and widen, Soon, we are told, two mors powerful dredges will bo put to work there, und, with three bouts working together, an cn- trance channel ncross this herd sand middle- ground sbonl of suflicent width and depth for the largest clnss of ocean steamers, even at the present low river stage, may be expected nt un early Qate. With thie.river at tho helght {t was threo months ago wo would have even now n clear and unobstructed chauncl of more than twenty-two feet in depth, from New Orleans to the sen, through South Pass, This Inng looked and 'lmpcd for desideratum, f“an open river mouth,” scems at last to be near of accomplishment, and wo tuke pleas- ure ju congratulating 'the ierchants of our city on'tho proapect of the revival of their busiucss intereats which miust result therefrom, —————e— A Grent Pigoon Itoost. Suuthtanid (Ho.) Ruatic, Flgeons have como into this part of the coun- try by mllifons. Of evenings the sky fs dark- ened with thet fn the uelghiborhood of Dr, Dod- son's, on the Auglaize, "They have mude Dod- son’s farm their headquarters, and ot nights the trees and underbrush ore loaded down with multitudes, As this ruostfs but u short dis- tance from our house, we have had ample opnortunity to watch thele mancuvres ond to hear the Incessant nolse they make. A little before sundown large armivs of plgeons are seen coming from different points of the com- but each army pnsses onward ns I hey gintended to change thelr roosting- place. Aftor nwhile they return and scttle on tho trees around the roost, not many of them nearer than a mile of the phwu. Thoy mnke sud- den flights trom these trovs, und the sound of thelr wings fs ltko that of a grest storm, There is o coustint rosring in tho air as myrdds of the Dirds fly to and fro. About dark t®y fly to- ward tfie roost, and for a long time they fly round and round, nud have the uppearance of heos swarming, nfumugh the vast number und ‘the tornado-like runrlu[i they muke surpasses nnymln;f in the power of mai to deseribe, Af- ter u while they alight'on tho troes aud bushes, and the Hmbs "are beut downward,—often are broken ofl. The pleeons kcu;x up n constant chattoring, which can bo heard for willes away. "They are nover still durlng the night, 8o Inr us sleep is concerucd, such o' thing fs out of .tho «uestion with o pigeon. ‘They, are disturbed by them- selves,—such throng, nssembling In a spot that none can be still for s moment, unid the Inces- sant discharging of firearins among them eauses them to ehango thelrlocatlon almost constantly, ‘This roost s visited every night by crowuds of men, some with guns, and uthers with poles, which thoy uso {n tureshing down the .pligeous thint hnppens to beut the polut struck, Huudreds ure killed overy night; but when Tight appears the vast arindes ngain o forth with apparently as much vl‘flur 3 ever. Plgeons have been Kitled fn Now York with undigosted rice [n their erops, which ‘they had evidently gathered ' the ricestields fn the -Carollnas, Krom these.and othor clveumatances 1t has buen csthmated that o pigeon flles ¢b the rate of u wdle aminute, The ManWho Ius Hoon to the Centonnial, inctnnatl Suiurday Night, A bashful-uppearing man stepped Into the Enqurer editorial-room the otlier uvening, aund, edging up to the table of the managing cditor, it in houd, said In o hesltating ways * You like Httle Items Tor your pape: luuplmsu‘f" v Cer- tainly," replied "Mr, Cockerdll, “a newspaper, like fife, Is made up of lttloftems, Wimt have you to offer?” ¢ Well," sald the bakhful man, lllflyllg{ with his hat-band, *iny nume fs Smith— Johin Bmith—and I've ]usl got home.! ¥ Glad to ses you baek aguin, Mr. Buiith,"" salil Codkerltl, “been gonelong Pt 1 have heen,’ suld My, Smith, with o tremor of pride fu hls volee, 4 to the Centenulal, apd If vou wint to make o little notlee—"" W What 1" crled Cockerfll, spring- ing to by feet, ¥ you've beon to the Centennintt And you've grot back? Glyve us your hand; 1'm dollgited to see you, Spear, et mo Introduce you to Jolin Smith, Joln hus been to the Cen- tenulal?? Speag shook hauda very warmly with Mr. Binith, -aud then wi to “the nperture communfeating with - the reporter’s raom oud ghouted: “ Ohuughnossy, come i liere, quick, here’s o mun that's heen to the Centennial,” Then O'8hauglinessy bounced In, followetl by his asslatants, all of whom em- braced the bowlldered Smith \\'urmlg’. aml ex- pressed tho gratltication ft afforded them to mweetn tman who had-been to the great Nutlonalg) Exhibition, ‘Word got down-stuivs somohow, and Joo McDowell, BHL Small, und Uncele Jou Bhudinger enmo up-stairs ot o tearing vato, to iulu upon the fndividual who had been to the sxlidbition. It wus tuo much for the modost mian Lo bear, and, murinuvsg something sbout maklng an ltem of Wi return’if they wanted to, hu hurrled out Just in time to meet un the stalrs thy foreman and thirty-two compositors, ull vager to et o glimpse "of the man who had **beett to the Centenninl,” - ——— Octobor hinmigration, Oftictal information reculved ut the Burean of Btatlstics shows that during the month of Octo- ber, 1874, therearrlved ut the port of New York 6,550 fnnigrunts, of whom 3,638 were males and 202 fomules. Nottonalitiea: From England, 13475 Beothund, 3105 Wales and the Isle of Man, 203 Lrelund, V103 Germany, 23,0103 Austria, 2803 Sweden, 9045 Norway, 1905 Denmark, 43; France, 338; Switeortaind, 1533 Spuin, 203 lm , 2233 Hollund, 825 Belrium, 145 Russia, 4573 Po- land, 05 Tungepry, 205 Turkey, Guatenaoly, Ven- ezueln, Porsiu, Medelry, nnd Australin, 1 cvach Ureeee, Nova Beotin, and Hayth, 5 cacliy Jopan, 83 Canadu, 313 Moxleo, 12, Chflt und Africa, § euchis Cubyy, 105 Bermuda, 83 Slelly, 103 Glbral- tar, 43 buraat sea, 4. I addition’ to the ubove 4,200 Dassenyrers arrived durlnie the manth of October, OF this number 2,861 were cltlzens of thie United Statcs and 84 temporary sojouruers, A ThicP's Jump, Ctecelanit Leater, A Iady, stoppiug ut the Forest City House, ro- turned to her roow, which she had Jeft unlocked for a few minutes last evening, aixd suw a colored wan fu it With o sin 'ulur}:rescnuu of mind, sho locked the door awd notitled the clerk, who sepaired to the voum. Openlug it, he found the mun had gowe, whither he was unablo to telly unless au open window vould solve tne wys- tery. Subsequent events led to the bellef that the man must huve beconié so ufruld of cavture [\ that ho risked o flying leap out of the wiudow, the room being wu the third floor, About the thne he wus locked fu, & couplo of mon in 8ol- omouson's opticlan eétore on Buporlur strect saw u colored man coine dashing down throush thelr awnlug, fect frst, and with so much force that he rlu&«u Lo clear through it, and tanded fna sltt! posture on_the pavement, ‘fhey cupturcd him wnd asked him what he 1neaut by shovtduz down like o metpor out of tho sky,” Hn rephicd that lw bad juwped out of tho second-tloor window, but wus “unable to tell what he meant by taking so short neut to the puventent. The men imilly et hiin go. He rat vt box for n few moments, and then proceeded slowly down the street, Hmping as he went. He wats aubsequently arrested while sttting on n bux on Seneea wtreet, Ho gmve Ll nnme ng_ Moses Robtason, salillic Mved' at tho rear of No. 410 Perry stecet, und was 27 yeurs of nge, but dewlad the Jumping entirely, Tlo was (dontiiied by purtles who saw hiti na helng the party who ook the leap, At the time of ‘the jump lie had a dressed ehleken wmder one arm “and a dozon and a half egzes in one pocket. . Only three of the latter from the fhom i the Votel, Robinson wan charged with being asuspicious person. He was locked up in the Central, e —t—— The Causo of tho 'Splosfon. Keokuk Comailtutiop. “Iwould fuvite you to my house, brudder Jackeon,” sald Deacon Johnson, as he umc{{;ml from clarel Jnst Sunday eveniug, “but Idan- dons we'll get any suppor dls nlght, tho cook stove nm Ao droffully out ob repair.’? H#What's de taatter wid do stovo ™ “Why, you sce cold wedder nm comin® on and wood's gottin' skese an' high, nn' I've ‘structed de folks to bo berry oknocomleal in dousin’ ob i, Wo'se bin byyln’ in small lots, an’ luat nl;gu., boin’ out-ob feul, I sent one of my buys ober to a nelghbors to borrow u fuw sticks, De man or his family had gone to bed owin to de lateness ob du hor, an’ dat boy, who would ‘splse to do a unhonest lmumcuun' wiote vut his note for de value ob de wood, an' droppin’ it ina prowmjnent plece in de woud- shed, shouldored an armful an' brougit it home." *Jess 50 “Well, nfire wns Kindled, de tea kittle put on, de ole woman she s glttin do suppoer. All ob a sudden, puilwent de stove, zoon; K swlsli, kushlush went something, and ns tumbled over I snw de ble woman iakin’ for da roof wid de tea kittle and the stove plates follown’ hor, while de boys un' de gals was as binck wid smut as de ace of spudes, Do stove’s goose was-covk- od for o fact," 44 What was ko cause ob de 'sploshun?"? “1'm strongly 'cliued to belleve dat dar was ‘powder in dat wood, an' dat de powder was dony put Indar by dat white man to ketch some thievin’ darkeys wat nobber buys no wuod, nn' bressed ef 1 don't think .dat mon spocts me, leuse bie couldn’t tind dat note, and won't make any ’J)ulnglcl." ¥ Dat uut an outrage.” “For afact, au’ de chfldren’s suppor was splled, too.” —— A Fruit Denler's Troublos, Atlanta Conatitution, A utflld‘loohllle_: gentlemnn, nf‘?mrnnu{“ n stranger, stopped at an apple staud on White- hall street yestorday. **What 13 the Ith:uol the oranges1" be asked, pointing to u collection of large pears. *““Dees ces not do horange,” “sald the polite vendor, Dees ees de California paire, One for twenty-N' cent,” **You dou't mean to tell me,? sald the stran- I:er, putting lits haud upou an apple, *that this 8 8 peard”s “Pardonl no! I say dees ces do pale. Dees 83 de appel. Tree for de ton cont.'” * Well, I'nust gay,” continued the _stranger, rlcklng up o handfil of chestuuts and cxamiu- ng~ thum- critically, * that thesy aro the queer- est zamlu 1 cyor saw.” *Oh, my Godl nol Dem ccs do cheseynut Wwhat grow” In your own countree. You roas' theent in de fre,” *“Roast themdn the fre! Well, upon my wardl" fingering o bunch of bananas curious- l{. “I don't sce how such chestnuts as these can e impraved by ronsting, They scem to be sott enouph now. ™ However, Iam’ much obllged, T'll sce you Jster. Good day,” aud the straneer passed up the streot. “*Gentlemen,” sald the fruit dealer, turnin n an appealing mauner to the crowd’ that L gathiered,* dut mau 18 ouo escape dam fool from de ponitentlury,'’ Thoe Proposed Convorsion of the Sahnra Dosort Into u Sen, Landton Kzaminer, The proposed picreing of the Isthmus of Suez and the acheme of reconverting the Sahara into # sealins induced Dr. Reelam,” the well-knawn ndvoeate of cremation, to write o warning article in his porlodiual, called fesundheit (¢ Mealth), 1le me‘m ty a remarkable change n the climate of the 'Torres Struits, botween' Australla: aud New Guinea, which in 1008 were oty beset by twenty-six coral Islands, now nugmented to 10(}., The gradual deviation of a warm' current of sen water, owIng to this successive stopping up of the Torres passuge, ling alrendy wrought o Breat alteration of the climate in those quurters, Dr, Beclum opprehends a simifar danger for the European, and speciatly the German, ¢l mute fron_the devintion® of the Gui Stremn” after the plerelng of the Isthmus of Sucz. llo snys Buropo owes its moderata clitute partly to the wann-water heating by the Gulf Stream, partly to the liot-nir heating by the wind from he Alrican desert. That hot “wind, known in Switzerland us the Fobn, isa suow-devourer and and phcler-destroyer. Without {t, the sun the summer would not suflico to stop the provress of glacler formation. Tho fee-period of Europe explalus Itsolf by asswiging that the Sahara was then coverel with sen water. ‘The fee-perlod would return if the desert were recouverted futo a lake. Dr. Reelmn, who s g friend of fire, hos decidediy on objection to the extension of the domain of water. ———— DModern Ruilronl Travel, Jull Mall Guzette, ‘The Engincer gives au account of “he high. est aythentic instances of high rallway speed aurecord. Brunel, with the Courler cluss of Tocamotives, run 18 milos in ten minutcs, caqual to 98 miles an hour, Mr. I Stirling, of the Qreat Northorn, took, two year ugo, sixtech - earriazes 15 infles In thirteen minutes, mwnl to 70 miles nnt hour. The *Great Britaln,” ¥ Lord of the Isles™ and “ Iron Duke,” rond guuge ungines on the Great Westorn Rallway, bave eunch run with four or five carrlages from Pad- dington to Dident In forty-soven and a half nilu- utes, equil’to 66 mites an hour. *The new Mid- -Jund coupled oxpress onglues, ruuning In the usual course, huve beon timed. 88, 70, and 72 anfles an Nour. ‘The 108, m. express on the “Gireut Novthern' from Leeds has been timed, and found infle after mile at:the rate of a mile I fifty-two seconds, or-at 69,9 miles an hour. The eugines usel are My, Btirllog's outside vylinder bogic expross unzines, the lood being ten carrlazes. It would bo futeresting to hear {*the sluwest authentic Instauces of eibw omul- bus speed ' on record. « e —— Tho Beotol Pooruge, By thotreaty of unfon it was arranged that ‘the Scoteh peeruge Bhoull Lo rc}u'u:smliml by ‘sixteen Pesrs elected to represent it {n the Brit- Ish Parllament, Fwo deaths have so recently occurred that b will wot be possitle for the ‘proper suthoritles much longer to delay the Js- sue of an order tor eleeting two fresh Peers, and already muvh cunvaesing lus been quictly golng on umong the few (very Tow now) Peers wiio ure excluded from taling any leglslative or deliber- ative part fu cither House of Parllument, The decenso of the Earl of Leven aud Melville, and nuw ot the Marqula of ‘Fwoeddale, has reduced the requisite nunber of represeutative Peors to fourteen, Thore are only twenty wale Peers at thix moument out of whom the two vacuucles can be supplicd. . A Valunble Cow. Neto Huo:n (Coan.) Reglater, Mr. F. B; Sturr, thio famons Liieliol hns on exhibitionat the Centenutul uJ. 934 years old, which Isa rare one. The aceur ate record of her milk for twu montl was s folluws; 800 pounds. 0% pounds, 7683 pounds, On tho 23d of Auguat this helfer welghed just 700 pounds, so thot Inthat wouth she gave about. one-thind more welght of wilk thaw her own welght. = CARTIAGESN, We aro selling. at gruntl)" re- duced prices, LANDAUS. LANDAULETS, ULARENCES, 00AQHES, QOUPES, and COUPELETS Our Patent Counterbalancod Front FIVE-LIGHT LANDAUS & FALIL- ING FRONT BERLIN COACHES Aarotho !ondlni Oarriagos of tho day, and, for boauty ot dosign, simplic- ity, and thoroughness of construc- tion, aro unsurpassed. Tho Falling Fronts to both are nicely countor- belanced by s Spring (which ar- rongomont is Patentod®), and can with easa bo lowered and raised with the finger. We guarantee our work to be FIRST-CLASS, and to ploase in evorpy particular. “No infringomont of ourights under the sbove patent, will bu allowed, H, KILLAM & CO., 20 Chestnut-st.,, New Haven, Conn, C. 0. TEN BROEKE Iy our Agent lu Chlcazo, jere broken, As $38 was missing | At Exposttion At Hal, 1032 PAINTINGS Dy such Bminent Attlats oy Qerome, Achenly ;‘myon. \\'nlkur:.wh' fl‘lfl“f" famacols, Tabst, M ponnlt L:‘urr'x‘:»lnet. %l‘ue. llrll‘ljx;wy oo, gorn fers Vibert, Jnncnlenr:m' }‘llefllfimh' Guillemin, Raknlowie, Morap,” Yenschuur, F{.'nmulm. Tamil Pasini, Herueg, lmm,o"' And ollzgrnl fifii‘. DUmMerous tom, adelphia Galorias o ton C. . HASELTINE, Buoh an fmmonso number. Art ha of ine W Ay rv,a. x‘wt boon proviousty oflor«d’l’}}f: PUBLIC g ] And‘bhe opportunity Ahuuldfib?l‘nm = Salo Commonees Monday Bye,, Ky, 13 Paintings now on fr 5p. m.,and7to10 p. l:,(:‘viuw fromgy, m.iy Bl Princine e THE FAVORITE Key West Segar ~ BTOCKHOLDERS' MEETIN Orricz oF T BALTINONE, IATToRURA & Crne ca60 Rateway Ca., LLLixois Divistos, Cuitcaco, Oct, 20, 187 NOTICHE To the Stockholders of the Baltimore, Pittsburgh & Chicago Railway Oompany, Illinois Div.: You are hereby notified that in pursnance of a ramolution of tho Board of Dircctors of the ubove: named Cotnpany udapted Get, 23, 1870, & specte} meeting of the stockholders of ‘the Haltinore, Plttsbureh & Chicago Nollway Company, il Division, $shereby called 10 be held oi Wednes. day, Not, 20), 1870, at half-pust 2 o'clock p, m., at the pablic ofico of the Company, No, 81 Sunth Clark-#t., Chicago, Cook County, I, , to conshicr and voto upon tfie’ question of changiiy the name of the Compuny to ** Baltimore & Ohlo & Chieszo Rallroad COIIIDIX“iI " fnaccordance with the statute of theStato of 1fiinolu in wnch cases mado and provlded, W, C. q\mh CY, 1 JOUN TYRRELL, Dircctors of N. LUD l(hcllllll- DANIE] S, |more, Pittse HOR, E, tbnrghd Chl- WILLIAM K ER, | eago ltallses) e S, " | Comany, Wi JOHN K, COWEN, nolyDivislon. JAMES WALSH, WOROESTERS! SAUCE, LEA & PERRIN® CELEBRATED PRONOUNCED BY CONNOISSEURS EXTRACT of nLETTER frou t MEDICAL GENTLE: TO BE THE MAY at Madras 1o bl broltier st “ONLY GOOD o ““Tell LEA & PER RINS that thelr faucs SAUCE,” And Applicsbloto Indis, and 15, & BY EVE RE==24 optuton. the mot il VARIETY ¢ 8 wel ¢ htins 5, 2 ot wholevome 3383 OF DISH, that {8 made." WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. LEA & PERRINS' SIGNATURE {s on EVERY BOTTLE. Lew it JOHN DUNOAN'S 808, AV YORK:, INSURANOE, EETABLISHED 1850. Tl Manhattan Life Ios, O OF NEW YORK. "OVER TEN HILLION DOLLARS, SURPLUS OVER LIABILITIES, TW0 MILLION DOLLARS. il , and Qeneral Agents waalt th‘rfmmu“fl'\'s‘u»n m‘)u/{m.. or ':‘;::1‘;‘!,,1 w 3 ; cpurtinent, Rt e Chicagn CLOTH FIRE! FIRE!! CLOTEING . Slightly Damaged by Wateh fre of Hall, Gerrlson & Co., ROV lothing, to bo sald nd ! y 60 per c‘u‘nt below frst cost, Haloto coutinue day to day until closed, at flL 168 South Clarkest,, Chieago, o Jobbeew will find it to thelr sdvantage 10 €%} ino our stock. Have beon awardod a Bodal snd Dlsz‘\“‘ at the Osntennial Exposition and o mended by the Judges for “SUPERIOR STRENGTH EXCELLENT QUALITY SPOOL COTTON. rale A. T, UOSHORN, Director Genel 1:'1 LAWLEY, Prde 8. pro. WS - — Asxx, B, Borsixs,